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Surrealism is an art movement that started in 1924 and ended in 1966. It consists of the representation of dreams. Basically, it consist of anti-rationalism. The figures in these paintings resemble organic beings but they are hard to identify as an specific thing as seen in Joan Miró. It includes irrational thinking and paranoia, a way to access unconsciousness basically seeing dreams.

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Some of the artists who participated in this movement are Joan Miró and Meret Oppenheim which have their respective famous artworks Carnival of Harelquin and Object.

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Joan’s painting represents a lot of everyday objects which seem cant be assigned as an specific one. It has a lot of irrational thinking in it, using a lot of geometric shapes. For example in the window, the black triangle is likely representing the Eiffel Tower, Miró’s city of dreams

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We can see a spoon and a cup in a little plate, being for tea or coffee but this is different from a regular coffee cup since its covered in fur. It is surreal because cups aren´t made of fur.

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Fauvism is an art movement that started in 1899 and ended in 1908. This movement is characterised by the use of strong colors and a fierce brush. Its also used for artists to communicate their emotional state

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1. It includes illogical shapes and things that seem familiar and sometimes cant be semeed to be assigned as one specific one.
2. It includes sybolic images which represent something
3. It includes dismporphed shapes and figures.

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Andre Derain and Henry matisse are two artists which participated in fauvism, with their artworks of Portrait of Henry Matisse and Le Bonheur de vivre

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We can see some of the defining characteristics of fauvism such as hard brushes which are defined in the whole artwork and some strong colors which are not usual for a portrait

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We can also see the same concepts as in fauvism there is hard brushes and strong colors, for example; the orange in the ground the yellow sea are very high contrast and strong colors

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1. Its artworks are almost everytime done with strong brushes and
2. Its done with strong colors, almost acidics.
3. Its an experiment of separating the color from the subject matter

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Impressionism is an art movement that started in 1862 and ended in 1892. This movement is characterised by the use of relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes. They used loose brushwork and lighter colors

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Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley are two artists which participate in impressionism with their artworks of Impression, Sunrise and Fog, Voisins

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We can see here the characteristics of impressionism, a loose brushwork with thin but visible strokes and a use of light colors, a warm orange and warm blues

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It also includes the use of warm colors, a loose stroke and not really focusing on anything just the environment and the warm colors.

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1. Use of loose brushwork, thin and visible stroke
2. Use of light and warm colors for the artwork
3. Unblended colors

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Dadaism is an art movement that started in 1916 and ended in 1924. This movement is characterised by the use collages, montages and assemblages of disparate objects

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Hugo Ball and Marcel Duchamp are two artists which participated in dadaism with their artworks of Reciting the Sound Poem "Karawane" and LHOOQ

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We can see here the characteristics of dadaism, a montage of various objects and a collage

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We can see the characteristics of a montage of various disperate objects in this artwork and an assemblage of these

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1. It contains collages and photomontages
2. Assemblage of various disperate objects
3. Irrationality

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Constructivism is an art movement that started in 1915 and ended in the late 1930s. This movement is characterised by wanting to produce artworks using modern materials and designs including geometric forms arranged in  a space in harmonius order. It also rejects bright and colourful palettes.

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Lyubov Popova and El Lissitzky are two artists which participated in constructivism with their artworks of Stage set design for, The magnanimous Cuckold and Proun Room

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We can see the characteristics, use of a lot of geometrical forms laid on a surface with the use of not very bright colors

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We can see some of the main characteristics of the movement here such as the laying of forms in a surface, the use of non bright palettes and also isnt very colorful.

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1. It doesnt use a bright or colorful palette
2. It contains geometrical forms and shapes
3. It uses modern designs

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Futurism is an art movement that started in 1909 and ended in 194. This movement is characterised by wanting to express their political and social ideas and this is done by expressing things like speed with blurring, repetition and lines of force and expressing energy and vitality

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Umberto Boccioni and Giacomo Balla are some artists who participated in the movement with their respective artworks of The city rises and Dynamism of Dog on a leash.

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We can see a lot of bright colors with the representation of energy and speed in the image with blurrings in it.

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We can see the representation of movement and energy in the speed of the dog. Speed is shown here by the repetition in the paws showing he is moving fastly

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1. It uses repetitions and blurrings to represent movement and speed
2. It uses lines of force, a technique adopted from cubism
3. It represents energy

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Cubism is an art movement that started in 1907 and ended in 1922. This movement is characterized by wanting to explore open form by piercing figures blending the background into the foreground and showing objects from different angles.

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Pablo Picasso is a key artist which was very important in the development of this movement. His artworks include Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Guernica and various more.

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We can see the defining characteristics of cubism here, objects such as the use of geometric shapes, forms piercing through each other and showing objects from different angles and the use of a monochromatic palette.

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We can see again the characteristics, using geometric shapes that sometimes pierce through each other and the use of a monochromatic palette

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1. It uses geometric figures and shapes
2. It has objects piercing through each other
3. It uses a monochromatic palette

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Expressionism is an art movement that started in 1905 and ended in 1933. This movement is characterized by the use of swirling and swaying exaggerated brush strokes. Art was meant to come from within the artist.

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Edvard Munch and Vicent Van Gogh are two artists which participated in the expressionism movement with their artworks of The Scream and The starry Night.

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We can see the characteristics since its a man screaming but done with some particular features such as the exaggerated swirls and curls.

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We can once again see swirls and swinging through the whole piece and it shows a mountain with houses but in a very exaggerated manner

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1. It is very exaggerated
2. It uses a lot of swirls and swings
3. It has a very defined brushwork

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Abstract Expressionism is an art movement that started in 1943 and ended in late 1965. This movement is characterized by the use of action painting and color field painting by valuing freedom

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Franz Kline and are two artists Jackson Pollock who participated in the movement with their paintings of Chief and Autumn Rythm

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We can see the main characteristic of abstract expressionism, action painting which is to dribble, splash or smear painting into the canvas instead of carefully doing it

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We can see again the main characteristic of abstract expressionism, action painting in which this artist splashed painting all throughout the canvas to represent the autumn

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1. Splashes of paint
2. Smears of paint
3. Dribbles with the brush

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This drawing is an old bicycle, it’s rusty and has an environment representing the time. The characteristics of futurism are seen because of the lines that represent movement and some blurrings. There is also some text, which is often seen in futuristic movement

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This drawing is a modern black and green bicycle at the actual time. It contains elements like a contemporary background representing the time, the lines of movement showing it’s going fast and again a sign with some letters, a characteristic of futurism

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This drawing is a blue futuristic bicycle with again, a corresponding background, tilting towards the future. It contains lines of movement an environment representing the future and some text laying around in the flying ovni in the background

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My series include 3 futuristic paintings which progress from old to something from the future. I represent movement in this pictures with lines and blurrings, which will also be shown on the final product. The series is about bicycles, with an old rusty one at first, then a modern one and finally a future bicycle with each of these paintings with their respective environments in the background

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In my art I like to express the evolution of the human creations, specifically the bicycle. It shows a futuristic movement in which I included some lines which represented movement and some small items in the background characteristic of the movement, some birds in the past, an airplane in the present and some spaceships in the future.